I recently updated my version of Octave using Homebrew and something went a bit eerie… Nothing major except that instead of plotting to the Aquaterm terminal, Octave and Gnuplot were only happy with X11. Not… Read More »Aquaterm plotting issue with Octave and Gnuplot (Mac)
I have just updated a previous post with some of the UUIDs for using some plugins with Mail.app. The correct strings for Mail 7.0 in Mavericks are: <string>0941BB9F-231F-452D-A26F-47A43863C991</string> <string>04D6EC0A-52FF-4BBE-9896-C0B5FB851BBA</string> For instructions on what to do… Read More »Disabled bundles for Mail in Mavericks
In various posts in the past, I have given some tips using the Terminal and some comments have arrived about how complicated they may seem. Nonetheless, I still think that the flexibility offered by the… Read More »Command Line: a few tips
I have been playing with iOS 7 and there is a lot of new things in it. For example: Mail has new Smart Mailboxes that can be helpful in filtering email: you can access them… Read More »Cool new features in iOS 7
I have been playing with iOS 7 for a while now and I just came across a very good addition to the experience: you can now actively manage the dictionaries to be downloaded and used… Read More »You can now manage dictionaries in iOS 7, great!
I confess (not that you might not know, but still…) that I am a mac user. I have been for some time now and I quite like it. As such I have got used to… Read More »Fixing disabled bundles/plugins for Mac Mail
Aha… now that I have posted about Gmail contacts and iOS, it seems that some of us are having questions about syncing with Mac OS… Well, here is a brief post about this. OPTION 1… Read More »Syncing Gmail contacts with Mac (OS)
Further to my previous post about Gmail, I noticed earlier in the week that I was missing a number of contacts in my phone. “Surely I did not delete them, did I?” I thought… Checked… Read More »Syncing Gmail contacts to iPhone or iPad
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS AN ENTRY PROVIDING INFORMATION IN THE HOPE IT MAY HELP. I CANNOT HELP YOU WITH SPECIFIC PROBLEMS WITH YOUR ACCOUNT. I recently got a very annoying error message in an… Read More »Fixing Gmail incorrect password/user error (iPhone and iPad)
I quite like the some of the “user-friendly” features that come with OS X. But sometimes they get a bit clogged up. A point in case is the “Open With” menu that appears when any… Read More »Remove Duplicated from “Open with” in OS X